1893
GUSN-318969
Fruit and drug presses are described on the item verso. The presses were displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The illustration has a Continental soldier with the verse "The battle is over, Bunker Hill no more will call the soldier from the maid he does adore, while to his side he would his gentle Nelly press she tells him of the Enterprise Fruite & Jelly Press." The press in the illustration holds Concord grapes. The Government Building in the fair is at the bottom of the card.
advertising
business (commercial function)
food mills, grinders and presses
wine presses
appliances
kitchenware
world's fairs
caricatures
trade cards (advertising)
1 trade card : color illustration ; 5 x 3 1/2 inches
EP003
Trade card albums collection
EP003.001.004
5 x 3 1/2 (HxW)(inches)
Anonymous donor 2001.
Philadelphia (Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania)
Enterprise Manufacturing Co. (Publisher)
Donaldson Brothers (Firm) (Printer)
trade cards (advertising)
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775
Item
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